Monday Harvest – 5th Dec 2011

This is a bit of mini harvest post – brought to you by the wonders of WordPresses scheduled publishing facility.  I am (hopefully enjoying myself) in Sydney at the moment on a camping holiday – unfortunately, and possibly typically, Melbourne’s weather forecast for this week is divine and Sydney’s is pretty average but I am hopeful of enough non weather dependent activities to keep everyone entertained.  It had better be nicer next week when we hit the beach on the NSW south coast though……

I did harvest a fair bit (about 80 heads) of garlic before I left  – a couple that I initially pulled had started to get a bit mouldy – I think this may have been aphid weakening the stalk more than the bulb rotting per se but I’m speculating.  The majority were pretty good though, albeit variable in size.  I do think they would have probably benefited from being left in the ground a little longer though.  Here is a sample:

As well as growing garlic in the ground – I also planted some in polystyrene boxes – I harvested from the last box this week.  I was pretty pleased with the results – decent and pretty uniform bulb size.

I still have about 20 garlic plants growing so it will be very interesting to compare and see if they suffer, or benefit, from the extra time in the ground.

The only other thing I managed to photograph in this – a shortened harvesting week – was this plate of salad ingredients:

In fact I harvested this same combination quite a few times this week.  This particular mix went under some fried haloumi for lunch.

I’m not sure if our campsite has WIFI so I may be very quiet for the next couple of weeks.  If so normal service will be resumed in a fortnight.

In the meantime though there are fabulous harvests to be viewed if you head over to Daphne’s Dandelions.